BUSINESS BRIEFS -- Continental Buys Rival

Published
4:00 am PDT, Tuesday, October 1, 1996

Continental Circuits Corp. said it agreed to acquire smaller rival Sigma Circuits Inc. of Santa Clara, in a stock swap valued at $33 million. Both companies manufacture products used to make electronics equipment for telecommunications, computer and medical industries. Sigma had revenue of $87.7 million for the year ended June 30, while Continental had revenues of $108.3 million in the year ended July 31.